The Good Earth

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Simon and Schuster, Sep 15, 2004 - Fiction - 357 pages
Nobel Laureate Pearl S. Buck’s epic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oprah Book Club selection about a vanished China and one family’s shifting fortunes.

Though more than seventy years have passed since this remarkable novel won the Pulitzer Prize, it has retained its popularity and become one of the great modern classics. In The Good Earth Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving, classic story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading for those who would fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century.

Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its terrors, its passions, its ambitions and rewards. Her brilliant novel—beloved by millions of readers—is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide of history.
 

Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
25
Section 3
32
Section 4
39
Section 5
46
Section 6
54
Section 7
59
Section 8
67
Section 19
176
Section 20
187
Section 21
200
Section 22
212
Section 23
220
Section 24
235
Section 25
245
Section 26
254

Section 9
76
Section 10
89
Section 11
93
Section 12
105
Section 13
113
Section 14
120
Section 15
138
Section 16
144
Section 17
157
Section 18
165
Section 27
270
Section 28
281
Section 29
294
Section 30
306
Section 31
319
Section 32
330
Section 33
339
Section 34
348
Section 35
359
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Limited preview - 2012
The Good Earth
Pearl S. Buck
Snippet view - 1989

Common terms and phrases

anger answered asked bear beside body bought bowl called child Ching clothes court cried Cuckoo dark dead door earth eldest eyes face father fear feet fields filled first flesh fool gate gave girl give gone grew hair hand harvest head hear heard heart knew labor land laughed lived looked Lord Lotus Lung’s maid man’s morning mother moved never night O-lan once opened passed piece poor rain remembered rice rich rose seemed seen sell silent silver slave sleep slept sons speak spoke stood streets suddenly talk thing thought took town turned uncle uncle’s village voice waited walked wall Wang Lung watched wife wish woman women young

About the author (2004)

Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, and The Atlantic Monthly. Her first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published by the John Day Company in 1930. In 1931, John Day published Pearl’s second novel, The Good Earth. This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children’s literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Good Earth
Enriched classic
Volume 1 of Good earth trilogy, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Volume 1 of House of earth, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Oprah's book club
Pulitzer prize in letters: Fiction
WSP contemporary classics
AuthorPearl S. Buck
Editionreprint
PublisherSimon and Schuster, 2004
ISBN0743272935, 9780743272933
Length357 pages
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Fiction / Classics
Fiction / General
Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Sagas
  
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